About Carol
Carol A. Harrington advises clients on a variety of matters, including estate, gift and generation-skipping tax issues, closely held businesses and succession planning, family office structures and issues, private trust companies, private foundations, trust and estate administration, and contested trust and tax matters. Carol is the former global head of McDermott’s Private Client Practice.Read full biography: https://www.mwe.com/people/harrington-carol-a/
Carol A. Harrington advises clients on a variety of matters, including estate, gift and generation-skipping tax issues, closely held businesses and succession planning, family office structures and issues, private trust companies, private foundations, trust and estate administration, and contested trust and tax matters. Carol is the former global head of McDermott’s Private Client Practice.
Read full biography: https://www.mwe.com/people/harrington-carol-a/
Practice Areas
Professional Affiliations
Awards & Recognition
- Lawyer of the Year: Trusts and Estates, Chicago (2015)
- Lawyer of the Year: Trusts and Estates, Chicago (2010)
- Recognized: Trusts and Estates
- Special Focus: Ethics and Professional Responsibility
- Special Focus: Family Businesses
- Special Focus: Fiduciary Duties
- Special Focus: Generation Skipping
- Special Focus: Gift Planning
- Special Focus: Litigation
- Special Focus: Planning for Closely Held Businesses
- Special Focus: Private
- Special Focus: Succession Planning
- Special Focus: Tax
- Special Focus: Transfer Tax
- Special Focus: Trust Administration
- Special Focus: Trust Companies
- Best Lawyers in America - 2010 Chicago Trusts & Estates Lawyer of the Year
- The National Law Journal 2011 – One of the three Most Influential Lawyers in Trusts & Estates